06/10/2019 - Can "Tech" Die?
Can "Tech" Die?
- when technology stops eating the world, people start eating each other.
- Ironically, even though Chinese political leadership is dominated by engineers, they are the opposite of technologists. They are technocrats. Technology-powered bureaucrats who want to slow technological evolution to a presumed-natural human pace
04/19/2019 - Against Waldenponding: II
Against Waldenponding: II
- All are excellent things, to be valued for what they literally are. But as suggested repositories for bits of your soul, they are incredibly dangerous.
- Every day you must head out and look for a fresh glimpse of it, expecting it in unexpected places.
04/05/2019 - Life Spirit Distillation
Life Spirit Distillation
- "Growth" fixation makes you less alive to the realities and possibilities of what's actually happening,
- Nothing is as self-limiting as a fixed idea of "growth" imagined by a younger version of you.
- If you never choose to be someone you didn't plan to be, you are never in a moral dilemma. You never have to choose a path that superficially looks like decay
03/08/2019 - What Executive Sponsorship Really Means
The Playflow Challenge
- The play-like soul of the future of work will manifest in a different way: work becoming continuously challenging and therefore stimulating. Work requiring imagination. Work acquiring ludic qualities. Work fostering deep immersion.
03/08/2019 - What Executive Sponsorship Really Means
What Executive Sponsorship Really Means
- The "executive sponsorship" is really the mindful attention to the progress along this learning spiral. Since optimal timing and tempo of learning/loading/nutrition is critical, the attention has to be continuous, not sporadic.